Haaretz Reporter Claims Sharon Murdered His First Wife

Who is leading the Jews out of Gush
Katif? According to Haaretz reporter Uzi Benziman, a vocal advocate
of "disengagement:" Ariel Sharon, a wife murderer.

Powerful suspicions that Sharon eliminated his first wife and
possibly his first son are widespread. Not so ironically, the
accusers are mostly from the "disengagement" supporters of the
Left, who made them when Sharon was their bogeyman, not hero.

We begin our journey with the official version of events:

Wikipedia - Ariel Sharon
Sharon has been widowed twice. Shortly after becoming a military
instructor, he married his first wife, Margalith, with whom he
had a son, Gur. Margalith died in an auto accident in 1962, and
Gur died in October 1967 after being shot while playing with his
father's rifle. After Margalith’s death, Sharon married her
younger sister, Lily.

Meanwhile, Sharon's personal life story reveals another spectrum
of mystery not many people in the west know about. Sharon's
family has been blighted by accidental tragedies with no
connection to the region's endless wars. The Prime Minister's
first wife, Margalit, was killed in a car accident in 1962, and
his eleven-year-old son, Gur, died in a shooting accident in
1967. These are the dry facts. Few people know that Sharon's
second wife, Lily, was actually Margalit's younger sister. At the
time there were some vicious rumours that it was Sharon's affair
with his wife's sister which led Margalit to suicide. Gur found
his death while playing with his father's loaded gun. I myself
have neither the means nor the intention to search for the true
story of Sharon's family affairs. On the contrary, I would argue
that the element of bloody gossip entangled with some libidinal
rumours helped to glorify the image of the promising young
officer.

This was idle gossip in the early seventies - Imagine the ladies
in Cafe Exodus on a Friday afternoon whispering about the strange
death of Sharon's first wife. She drove her car off the road,
said one, because she found out her husband was leaving her for
her sister, Lily. Someone fixed her brakes, said another.

Next week the ladies are back - see! he's marrying the sister! He
got rid of her for sure. That was ALL I knew of Sharon in the
seventies - that his wife died under mysterious circumstances.

Sharon's first wife Margalit was supposed to have been killed in
a car crash in 1962. His wife's sister, Liala (known as Lily)
immediately moved in, to act as a "housekeeper" — a few
months later they were married. Then, not many years later,
Sharon and Margalit's son Gur (who, depending on which report you
believe, was either 9 years old or 11 years old at the time) was
accidentally killed playing with one of Sharon's guns.

One report I found from a Middle East magazine says that the story
about Margalit dying in a car crash was totally fabricated by
Sharon — they claim that the truth is that Margalit killed
herself, despondent over the revelation that Sharon and her sister
were having an affair. The direct link to this was expunged, but
was fortunately cached in Google. [Internet-Archive: Sharon: autobiography and behaviour]

Although there are minor sources of these suspicions, one very
major source stands out. He is Uzi Benziman, a reporter with
Haaretz:

"When he returned to Israel in 1962 his wife Margalit was killed
in a traffic accident. Sharon describes this event with honorable
restraint—precisely the same restraint with which he later
describes the death of his beloved son Gur, who was killed at the
age of eleven when another boy shot him unintentionally with a
rifle that was in Sharon's house. But touching as they are, even
these two tales require the corrections to be found in Benziman's
book. Sharon ascribes his wife's accident to the fact that the
car she was driving, which they had brought back from England,
had right-wheel drive. But, according to Benziman, many of
Sharon's acquaintances believe his wife committed suicide in the
accident after discovering that Sharon was conducting an affair
with her younger sister Lily, who, shortly after her death,
became Sharon's wife and the mother of his children. Moreover,
after his son's death Sharon was vengeful toward the boy who had
shot Gur, accusing him of intentionally killing him. The boy and
his mother, the widow of a pilot, were forced to leave their
house, which was near Sharon's."

In his autobiography book Sharon says that his wife was killed in
a traffic accident, because the steering wheel was an English
type, and his son was killed by mistake by another child was
playing with Sharon’s rifle. The Israeli journalist Uzi
Benziman said in his book “ Sharon, Caesar of Israel”
that Sharon pretended to forget that his first wife was not
killed in a car accident but she committed suicide when
discovered the illicit love affair between Sharon and her sister
Leila. After the death of his first wife they, Sharon and Leila,
actually got married. Concerning the death of his son, Sharon as
Benziman said was not tolerant as he said in his autobiography,
with the child’s family. On the contrary, he used all kinds
of terrorism and brutality against them and forced them to move
to another place.

Benziman claimed in his book, Sharon, Caesar Of Israel, that Ariel
Sharon deliberately drove his first wife to suicide, and that is
murder. This claim has led to broader charges in the Arab media:

On May 6, 1962, Margalit was driving her car from Jerusalem to
Tel Aviv, when she suddenly veered out of her lane. A truck
approaching from the opposite direction was unsuccessful in
avoiding her. She died. Sharon died when he got the news,
however, he remained silent during her funerals.

The police investigation found Margalit responsible for reckless
and negligent driving. Friends said that she was in love with
Sharon and had a strong sense of jealousy of her own youngest
sister, Lilly. Lilly had immigrated to Israel as a youngster and
spent her first few years ay Sharon's home. When called up to the
army, she served in the Paratroopers Brigade, then under Sharon's
command.

Margalit's acquaintances note that during the weeks just prior to
the accident, Margalit was once depressed and preoccupied, and
had confided to a friend that her life had become miserable as a
result of her all consuming suspicion of a liaison between her
sister and her husband.

Did Margalit die in a common car accident or did she suicide? A
year later on, Sharon married Lilly.

Recently, a right-leaning site joined the fray by declaring
suspicions about the death of Sharon's son Gur shortly after Sharon
married the boy's aunt:

In the summer of 1967, eleven-year old Gur Sharon trumped all of
his buddies by declaring, "My Abba gave me five guns".

A couple of months later, tragedy struck. On Rosh Hashanah, the
first day of the year, Arik Sharon's first-born son, from his
first wife, was dead from a bullet wound.

Details are sketchy, but it seems that somehow Gur and a friend
managed to get a bullet into the chamber of a shotgun. Arik
Sharon was home at the time, and Gur died in his arms.

I don't know what the laws were 38 years ago, but in today's
world a "lesser" man may have been brought up on charges of
criminal negligence.

Indeed, any honest police investigator would ask why Sharon let his
son play with a loaded rifle. Why was he not charged with criminal
negligence, as anyone else would inevitably have been?

Thanks, in no small part to Benziman, a new picture emerges of a
sociopath murdering his first family so he could start a fresh one
with his new wife, the sister of the deceased.

So who is this Uzi Benziman who broke the story of the Sharon
family murder(s)? He is now one of the country's leading voices
calling for the evacuation of the Jews of Gush Katif. Sharon has
few allies so useful to his plans. Let us now hear from Mr.
Benziman:

Preparations for withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern
Samaria are not in the public consciousness and have not become
central to public discourse. As a result, there is no atmosphere
of preparation for something that is really going to happen...The
mantle of normalcy worn by these negotiations is a great missed
opportunity; it leads to delay which in turn leads to the
evaporation of the critical national significance of the
decision.

The settlers are rebelling against the rule of law and the
authority of the state. As if that were not enough, when the law
catches up with them, they act as if they are the ones who have
been wronged.

The settlers and their official leadership openly declare they do
not accept cabinet and Knesset decisions to withdraw from the
Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. They challenge the
legitimacy of these decisions, and there are those among them who
declare outright their preference for another source of authority

The decisions on the disengagement plan to be made by the cabinet
[on Sunday] and the Knesset on Tuesday may be essential steps,
but they will still not ensure its implementation. The demand to
prefer halakha [Jewish law] to the law of the land, to exclude
Israel's Arab citizens from the process of approving
disengagement, to deviate from accepted norms of debate and
decision-making, to shut up opposition by means both
administrative and juridical, are all clouds that presage the
storm. Violence will later emerge from its lair with all of its
destructive force. If the country does not manage to impose its
authority on the minority opposing disengagement, it will open
the gate to its disintegration.
Commentator Uzi Benziman in Haaretz

In short, Mr. Benziman, believing full well that Sharon murdered
his first wife after investigating the crime, is now working for
the murderer. In an honest, sane nation with an honest, sane media,
Benziman would be demanding a reinvestigation of the murder of
Margalit Sharon and his newspaper would be exposing the mad killer
leading their nation into catastrophe.

Instead, Uzi Benziman is letting Sharon murder again, this time
with his enthusiastic approval.

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